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Ideas Network Program Notes

You can access program descriptions, guest names and topics for many of the programs on Wisconsin Public Radio's Ideas Network. To see Program Notes for a particular day, select a date below. Most WPR programs are available for online playback and/or download.
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6:00 AM

The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon: Heartburn, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, flatulence and diarrhea are distressingly common. What can be done for these digestive woes? Plus, millions of bacteria grow and thrive in our guts. How does the microbiome affect our digestive health, and does our diet have an impact?


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller

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On an encore edition of Garden Talk, Larry Meiller finds out great ways to enjoy a bountiful harvest from our vegetable garden.
Guest: Patti Nagai ("nah-GEYE"), UW Extension horticulture educator, Racine County



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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This week on Zorba Paster On Your Health, the guys discuss a diabetes drug pitfall and find out that doctors may be ordering too many tests. Plus, a refreshing recipe for Smoked Turkey and Cranberry Salad!


9:00 AM

Car Talk


Laugh along with Click and Clack, during another edition of Car Talk.


10:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

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This week on Whad'Ya Know?... All the News that Isn't then special guest, author David Maraniss on his book, "Barack Obama: The Story" followed by the first Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
Then in the second hour, a special remembrance of Jim Packard.



12:00 PM

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!


It's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the hour-long quiz show from NPR.


1:00 PM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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This week on Zorba Paster On Your Health, the guys discuss a diabetes drug pitfall and find out that doctors may be ordering too many tests. Plus, a refreshing recipe for Smoked Turkey and Cranberry Salad!


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon: Heartburn, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, flatulence and diarrhea are distressingly common. What can be done for these digestive woes? Plus, millions of bacteria grow and thrive in our guts. How does the microbiome affect our digestive health, and does our diet have an impact?


3:00 PM

The Saturday Special: Radiolab


Strange stories of brains that lead their owners astray, knock them off balance, and, sometimes, propel them to do amazing things.


4:00 PM

This American Life


It used to be that the American expats in China were the big shots. They had the money, the status, the know-how. But much of that has changed. On This American Life: what's it like to be an American living in China now?


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Coming to you this week from the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, mischievous country chanteuse Suzy Bogguss, Dean of the Diatonic Harmonica, Howard Levy, and author and storyteller Jack Zimmerman. Tune in to hear from the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.


7:00 PM

Tent Show Radio


Enjoy music and entertainment from under the Big Top on Tent Show Radio.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Tonight at eight--out of the clear blue of the western sky--it's Sky King from 1951, followed by the Lux Radio Theater with the 1939 version of It Happened One Night.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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During tonight's nine o'clock hour of OTRD, after "It Happened One Night," it's Gangbusters from 1945, and the Whistler with "Dark Pattern" from 1954.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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During tonight's ten o'clock hour of OTRD--science fiction from 1956 with X-Minus One, and the Shadow in "The Black Fedora" from 1948.


11:00 PM

BBC World Service


Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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